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Watch_Dogs PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
- Start date
The previous thread was locked due to the abundance of discussion relating to cracked copies.
SgtAnonymous
Banned
can we please get a mod to change weather to rain 24/7? Outside of rainy weather, the lighting is pretty crappy.
G2A key emailed roughly 60 minutes back. Though those who ordered after mid may seems they may be waiting until tomorrow judging by the email update a week or so ago (I pred on 21 April, just missed the origin India deal).
Curious on benches to compare the 3gb vs 4gb vs 2gb of the 680/770 series to 780/780ti on similar cpu with ultra texture quality.
Hoping to play in 3D though judging from sli titan benchmarks in 2D it won't be easy.
3770k @ 4.7 or 4.6
770 4gb sli
eta 6-12 hours
For kicks and due to being amongst friendly fire in previous thread, lest we forget:
Curious on benches to compare the 3gb vs 4gb vs 2gb of the 680/770 series to 780/780ti on similar cpu with ultra texture quality.
Hoping to play in 3D though judging from sli titan benchmarks in 2D it won't be easy.
3770k @ 4.7 or 4.6
770 4gb sli
eta 6-12 hours
For kicks and due to being amongst friendly fire in previous thread, lest we forget:
prag16
Banned
As I expected, rumors of the 2500k's death have been greatly exaggerated. Much ado over nothing indeed.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Yep, and im glad most of us in the PC build thread kept hammering i5's over the AMD 8 cores. The i7 which are only 4 cores 8 threads, still out perform AMD's true 8 core due to superior clock for clock performance.
Where 50 banned gaffers from that thread are.
I installed the new drivers and Watch Dogs yesterday and I had severe stuttering at times on my GTX 680 SLI setup.
Another thing: how come the WD install dir is only 14GB compared to the 30GB that was previously reported and the 40GB install size for next gen versions?
fluffydelusions
Member
Game seems to run alright for me. Get occasional tearing but whatever. i7 4770k/ 280x everything at ultra. Will check FPS later
Kaisersalsek
Member
Anyone running this on a i7 4700hq and/or gtx 870m? Apparently nvidia forgot some people play on laptops.
Do you have 3GB on each card and are you using Ultra textures?
I had terrible stuttering with the old drivers but the new ones are much better.
CyberPunked
Member
I've got SLI 780s and am still getting the stuttering too...
Its really weird because I only get it when using SLI, not with a single card.
Riedinizzo
Banned
My rig is an i5 2500k, 16 GB of RAM with a 7850...you guys think I should go PC or xbone? Any benchmarks out there for a similar set up?
Is anyone else getting a kind of image retention after playing for a while? Very noticeable when panning the camera, and the only way to fix it is to restart the game it seems. I'm running a 690 in SLI, newest drivers, Windows 8.1. I'll try to get a screenshot the next time it happens.
Nope. 2GB. The texture and shader options are set to High.
With those specs the PC version is going to get you at least comparable results to the PS4 let alone the xbone.
prag16
Banned
Are there any reasonably accurate Jaguar benchmarks out there? Would be interesting to see. As I've said in the past, I'd be surprised if the PS4 CPU could beat a stock 2500k in anything at all, maybe not even with nearly perfect multi thread scaling.That always seemed a bit suspect considering that the PS4 CPU probably scores around 3000 points in that benchmark
Cannon Goose
Member
i5-2320, GTX 670 2GB and 8GB of RAM.
Game stutters a LOT while driving but it seems ok when on foot. This is with all settings on high and SMAA at 1920x1080 borderless.
I can't tell what my frame rate is though because Watch Dogs refuses to launch with any OSD app running in the background.
Game stutters a LOT while driving but it seems ok when on foot. This is with all settings on high and SMAA at 1920x1080 borderless.
I can't tell what my frame rate is though because Watch Dogs refuses to launch with any OSD app running in the background.
I'm hoping for some 750 ti benchmarks too.
Windom Earle
Member
God the driving is awful. Doesn't matter if I use 30fps or unlocked framerate, it just feels bad.
Do not use temporal smaa. Works?
My i7 3770k, GTX 770 4GB and 8GB of RAM are working flawlessly on everything ultra bar shadows, which I've turned to medium because shadows annoy me a lot in games. Get an occasional stutter but nothing big. Looks gorgeous and I just love walking around the city soaking in the atmosphere.
Everything just feels alive and wanting to be looked at which is just great for an open-world game. Ubisoft has done a very good job with this PC version, and gives me hope for their future titles.
Everything just feels alive and wanting to be looked at which is just great for an open-world game. Ubisoft has done a very good job with this PC version, and gives me hope for their future titles.
Well, the GTX 680 is not a low end GPU and should not be included in such a comparison.
Ah, didn't try turning that off. Will give it a go, thsnks for the tip!
Mango Positive
Member
i7-4770k
8GB Ram
GTX 680 (2GB)
1440 X 900 monitor
Everything is on Ultra except for textures on high.
Runs beautifully. I didn't have Fraps running, but I didn't notice any stuttering or massive drops. The only problem I had was trying to drive a car with keyboard and mouse. I'll have to get the XBox controller dongle out tonight.
8GB Ram
GTX 680 (2GB)
1440 X 900 monitor
Everything is on Ultra except for textures on high.
Runs beautifully. I didn't have Fraps running, but I didn't notice any stuttering or massive drops. The only problem I had was trying to drive a car with keyboard and mouse. I'll have to get the XBox controller dongle out tonight.
Windom Earle
Member
Game runs barely acceptable on powerful hardware. Very good job! /s
KaiserAlucard
Neo Member
Anyone else have this kind of bug after the game runs a while? It's like another image is flickering all the time, its kinda annoying.
i7-4770k
8GB Ram
GTX 670 (2GB) SLI
The game runs prefectly fine if not for that bug, a little stuttering sometimes but far from unplayable.
Unable to downsample? Will give you better IQ than the config file Supersampling.
Performance for me was slightly disappointing. I had to drop my overclock to 3.6ghz because it's starting to get too hot in my room at all time, causing my temps to get a bit higher than I like.
i7 920 @ 3.6ghz HT Disabled
12GB Ram
Radeon HD5870 Crossfire
Medium textures due to only having 1GB of VRam. Using Medium preset is the only way I can keep 30fps, and even then it sometimes drops into the mid 20s, that's with the new AMD drivers.
I'm wondering if those drivers just don't do anything for the 5000 series, because I get roughly the same performance when I disabled crossfire.
i7 920 @ 3.6ghz HT Disabled
12GB Ram
Radeon HD5870 Crossfire
Medium textures due to only having 1GB of VRam. Using Medium preset is the only way I can keep 30fps, and even then it sometimes drops into the mid 20s, that's with the new AMD drivers.
I'm wondering if those drivers just don't do anything for the 5000 series, because I get roughly the same performance when I disabled crossfire.
I can't - I tried but my monitor doesn't want to.
Try dropping shadow quality down to high also.
Steven Mason
Neo Member
I7 3770
asus HD7970 DCU2
8GB
windows 8.1
Can't wait to play it and hi guys first post here
asus HD7970 DCU2
8GB
windows 8.1
Can't wait to play it
and hi guys first post here
Anyone else have this kind of bug after the game runs a while? It's like another image is flickering all the time, its kinda annoying.
i7-4770k
8GB Ram
GTX 670 (2GB) SLI
The game runs prefectly fine if not for that bug, a little stuttering sometimes but far from unplayable.
It's not a bug, that's a side-effect of using temporal anti-aliasing. In this game the solutions with a temporal component are Temporal SMAA and TXAA, I believe.
TheVampire
Banned
How do you fix that problem where my FPS goes to either 30 or 60?
If I turn off vsync I get tearing.
If I turn off vsync I get tearing.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Did anyone else try that Large Page file fix that was posted in the old performance thread? Or the pagefilecheck shortcut command? I'm curious if they are actually helping or if it's a placebo effect.